THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS 


RESTRICTING 


CHINESE IMMIGRATION 


TO THE 


HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 


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THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS 


RESTRICTING 

CHINESE IMMIGRATION 

TO THE 

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 


PUBLISHED BY THE 

CHINESE BUREAU 

OF THE 

DEFpTplENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 

Honolulu, H. I., June 30, 1896. 



HONOLULU: 

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THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS 


RESTRICTING 



TO THE 

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 


CHAPTER LXXX. 

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AN ACT 

Restricting Chinese Immigration. 

Be it Enacted by the Queen and the Legislature of the Hawaiian 
Kingdom: 

Section 1 . No Chinese, except women who have relatives 
by marriage or blood residing in this Kingdom, children um 
der ten years of age who have parents or guardians residing 
in this Kingdom, clergymen, teachers and merchants hereto¬ 
fore residing and doing business in this Kingdom, except as 
hereinafter provided, shall be allowed to enter this Kingdom 
unless upon condition that while here he will engage in no 
trading or mechanical occupation other than domestic service 
or agricultural labor in the field or in sugar or rice mills, and 
that he will, whenever he shall cease to follow; his vocation as 
agricultural laborer in the field or in sugar or rice mills, or 




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as domestic servant, leave this Kingdom; and that for every 
breach of such condition he shall, upon conviction by any 
Police or District Justice, be liable to a fine of one hundred 
dollars. 

Section 2. Conditional permits to enter this Kingdom may 
be granted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs for such Chi¬ 
nese, not exceeding five thousand in number, as shall be re- 
'commended by the Board of Immigration, upon the applica¬ 
tion of employers of domestic, agricultural or mill labor, 
which said permits shall contain the condition, printed in 
both the English language and in Chinese characters, that 
the bearer is allowed to enter this Kingdom solely on condi¬ 
tion that while here he will engage in no trading or mechani¬ 
cal occupation other than domestic service or agricultural 
labor in the field or in sugar or rice mills, and that he will, 
whenever he shall cease to follow his vocation as agricultural 
laborer in the field or in rice or sugar mills, or as domestic 
servant, leave this Kingdom; and that for every breach of 
such condition he shall, upon conviction by any Police or Dis¬ 
trict Justice, be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars. Per¬ 
mits to enter this Kingdom may also be granted by the Minister 
of Foreign Affairs for any Chinese resident in this Kingdom 
at the date of the passage of this Act, provided that such person 
shall have resided within the Kingdom for two years imme¬ 
diately preceding such passage; and, also, to such other 
persons as may wish to sojourn temporarily in the Kingdom 
as travelers, or as merchants having business interests in this 
Kingdom; provided that such sojourn shall not exceed six 
months; and, provided that such person so permitted to enter 
shall give a bond to said Minister in the sum of five hundred 
dollars, liquidated damages, conditioned that he will leave the 
Kingdom within six months, and if he shall be found within the 
Kingdom after the expiration of six months, he shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be im¬ 
prisoned at hard labor for a term not to exceed six months. 
For each permit granted under this Section the Minister of 
Foreign Affairs shall be paid a fee of five dollars. 


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Section 3. The master of any vessel in which any Chinese 
for whom such permit shall not have been granted, other 
than clergymen, teachers or merchants formerly residing and 
doing business in this Kingdom, shall be brought into this 
Kingdom and landed here, shall be liable to a fine of one hun¬ 
dred dollars for every Chinese so illegally brought into this 
Kingdom, upon conviction thereof by any Police or District 
Justice, and such fine shall be a lien upon the vessel in which 
such Chinese shall have been brought into this Kingdom, and 
shall be enforced by proceeding in admiralty. 

Section 4. Such permits shall be printed in duplicate, the 
duplicate being in such case preserved in the Foreign Office 
as a stub in the book from which the original is taken; when 
the original shall be presented by any applicant for admission 
to the Kingdom, it shall be stamped across the face by the 
Customs officers, in red ink, with the word “cancelled,” and 
also with the equivalent of said word in Chinese characters, 
and with the date of such cancellation. All such cancelled 
permits shall be returned to the Foreign Office by the Col¬ 
lector-General of Customs, where, after being compared 
with their respective duplicates, they shall be filed and pre¬ 
served. 

Section 5. The Minister of Foreign Affairs shall make 
suitable regulations whereby Chinese clergymen, colporteurs, 
and merchants, formerly residing and doing business in this 
Kingdom, shall be identified and vouched for as such before 
being allowed to land in this Kingdom, and no Chinese claim¬ 
ing to be such shall be allowed to land until he shall have 
received a certificate from the Minister of Foreign Affairs cer¬ 
tifying that such Chinese is allowed to enter this Kingdom 
as a returned clergyman, colporteur or merchant, as the case 
may be. Such certificate shall, when presented by the holder 
thereof seeking to enter the Kingdom, be stamped in red ink 
in like manner with the aforesaid permits and returned to 
such holder, and the counterparts shall be preserved in the 
Foreign Office. 




Section 6 . A fee of one dollar shall be paid at the Foreign 
Office for each and every permit issued under Section 2, and 
a fee of live dollars for each certificate issued under Section 5 
of this Act. 

Section 7. Every employer, upon engaging the services of 
any such Chinese upon arrival in this Kingdom, shall register 
in the Foreign Office the name and intended place of occupa* 
tion of every Chinese thereby allowed to enter this Kingdom, 
and in case of any change in the employment of any such 
Chinese, each successive employer shall cause such change to 
be registered in the Foreign Office. 

Section 8. A charge of twenty-five cents shall be made for 
every name so registered, and every employer failing to cause 
such registry to be made shall be liable to a fine of not ex¬ 
ceeding fifty dollars for every such failure, on conviction there¬ 
of by any Police or District Magistrate. 

Section 9. This Act shall not apply to Diplomatic or other 
officers of the Chinese or other Governments, traveling upon 
the business of that Government, whose credentials shall be 
taken as an equivalent to the permit in this Act mentioned, 
and shall exempt them and their body and household servants 
from the provisions of this Act as to other Chinese. 

The Collector-General, or any Collector of Customs, shall 
have the authority to detain any person detected in, or rea¬ 
sonably suspected of, a violation of any of the provisions of 
this Act, and to hold him until a warrant of arrest can be , 
obtained. 

Section 10. All moneys received by the Minister of For¬ 
eign Affairs under this Act shall, from time to time, after audit 
and payment of the necessary expenses for carrying out its 
provisions, be paid into the Treasury, to the credit of the 
“Chinese Immigration Fund.” 

Section 11. The following Acts are hereby repealed: 

Chapter XXVIII., Acts of 1887; Chapters XVI. and LX. of 
the Acts of 1888; Chapters XLVII. and LXVII. of the Acts 


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of 1890; provided, tliat such return permits which have been 
heretofore issued under the laws herein repealed shall be held 
valid in accordance with the provisions of said laws and regu¬ 
lations heretofore made thereunder. 

Section 12. This Act shall take effect from the date of its 
approval. 

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act having passed its 
third reading in the Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom on 
the 30th day of November, A. D. 1892, on the 17th day of 
December, A. D. 1892, was presented to Her Majesty the 
Queen, through the Cabinet and was not returned to the 
Legislature within ten days (Sundays excepted) thereafter, 
and that the Legislature had not adjourned prior to the ex¬ 
piration of said period of ten days. 

Dated Honolulu, December 29th, A. D. 1892. 

JOHN S. WALKER, 

President of the Legislature. 

Attest : 

C. J. McCarthy, Clerk . 


CHAPTER XCI. 

AN ACT 

To Add a new Section, to be called Section 10a, to an Act 

ENTITLED “ An ACT RESTRICTING CHINESE IMMIGRATION,” 

tasse’d the 30th day of November, A. D. 1892. 

Be it Enacted by the Queen and the Legislature of the Hawaiian 
Kingdom. 

Section 1. A new Section, to be called Section 10A, is 
hereby added to the Act entitled “An Act restricting Chinese 
Immigration,” passed the 30th day of November, A. D. 1892, 
which shall read as follows: 



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“Section 10A. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, by and 
with the consent of a majority of the Cabinet, is hereby au¬ 
thorized and empowered to make and publish all such rules 
and regulations, and the same toi alter, amend or nullify, from 
time to time, as may be found necessary or proper to carry 
out the aim, intent, object and provisions contemplated by 
said Act, and such rules or regulations and all amendments 
or alterations thereto shall after publication in one or more 
newspapers printed and published in Honolulu have the force 
and effect of a statute law of the Kingdom.” 

Section 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the 
date of its passage. 

Approved this 11th day of January, A. D. 1893. 

LILIUOKALANI R. 

By the Queen, 

G. N. Wilcox, 

Minister of Interior , 


CHAPTER CIV. 

AN ACT 

To Add a new Section, to be called Section 10b, to an Act 

ENTITLED “ An Act RESTRICTING CHINESE IMMIGRATION,” 
PASSED THE 30TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. D. 1892. 

Be it Enacted by the Queen and the Legislature of the Hawaiian 
Kingdom: 

Section 1. A new Section, to be called Section 10B, is 
hereby added to the Act entitled “An Act restricting Chinese 
Immigration,” passed the 30tli day of November, A. D. 1892, 
which shall read as follows: 



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Section 10B. Any Chinese who shall enter or attempt to 
enter this Kingdom contrary to the provisions of this Act, or 
without the permit or permits hereinbefore provided for, shall 
upon conviction before any District Magistrate be liable to a 
fine of not more than two hundred dollars or to imprisonment 
at hard labor for a term not exceeding six months, or both, in 
the discretion of the Court.” 

Section 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the 
date of its passage. 

Approved this 12th day of January, A. D. 1893. 

LILIUOK AL ANI R. 

By the Queen: 

G. N. Wilcox, 

Minister of Interior. 


ACT 74 

OF THE EXECUTIVE AND ADVISORY COUNCILS. 


An Act Relating to Chinese Immigration, Supplementary to 
Chapter LXXX of the Session Laws of 1892, passed the 
30th day of November, A. D. 1892, Entitled “ An Act 
Restricting Chinese Immigration.” 

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Be it Enacted by the Executive and Advisory Councils of the Pro¬ 
visional Government of the Hawaiian Islands: 

Section 1. In addition to the conditions named in Section 2 
of Chapter LXXX of the Session Laws of 1892, upon which 
permits may be granted to Chinese to enter the Hawaiian 
Islands to engage as agricultural laborers in the field, or in 
rice or sugar mills, such permits shall only be granted upon the 


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further condition that the sum of one dollar and fifty cents 
out of the wages due the laborer at the end of each month shall 
be paid by his employer to the Board of Immigration in such 
manner and subject to such regulations as said Board shall 
direct, until such payments amount in each case to the sum of 
thirty-six dollars, to be held as a fund to the credit of the 
laborer for the uses and purposes hereinafter set forth. 

Section 2. The Board of Immigration shall keep proper 
accounts with each laborer of the amounts deposited by him 
under this Act. At the heading of each account shall be pasted 
the laborer’s photograph and be written in his name and the 
number of his certificate. All moneys thus deposited by the 
laborers shall be invested by the Board of Immigration in the 
Postal Savings Bank, and the interest shall be credited to each 
laborer’s account at the same rate and in the same manner as 
is being done by the Postal Savings Bank. 

Section 3. For the purpose of properly identifying the la¬ 
borer, he shall upon his arrival in this country furnish the 
Board of Immigration with two three-fourths face photographs, 
one of which is to be retained by the Board of Immigration, 
and the other one is to be attached to the laborer’s certificate 
of identification. 

Section 4. When the laborer shall cease to follow his avo¬ 
cation as an agricultural laborer in the field, or as a laborer in 
sugar or rice mills, and shall depart from the Hawaiian Islands, 
the amount to his credit shall be used as follows: The Board 
of Immigration shall apply so much thereof as may be neces¬ 
sary for the payment of his passage and pay the remainder 
to him. 

Section 5. Every employer of Chinese admitted into this 
country under permits provided by said Act, who shall fail to 
remit to the Board of Immigration the amount above provided 
out of the wages of such laborers, at the time and in the man¬ 
ner directed by said Board, shall be deemed guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor and liable to 1 a fine of not less than ten nor more 
than fifty dollars for each failure; and the said Board may 


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thereafter refuse to grant the application of such employer 
for permits for Chinese to enter this country.. 

Provided, however, if any such employer shall within thirty 
days after each failure show to said Board good and satisfac¬ 
tory reason for such failure, said penalties shall not be inn 
posed. 

Section 6. This Act shall take effect from the date of its 
publication. 

Approved this 3rd day of May, A. D. 1894. 

(Signed) SANFORD B. DOLE, 

President of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands. 

(Signed) J. A. King, 

Minister of the Interior. 


ACT 27 

OF THE EXECUTIVE AND ADVISORY COUNCILS. 


An Act to Amend Section 1 and Section 5 of Act 74 of the 
Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands, Enti¬ 
tled “ An Act Relating to Chinese Immigration, Sup¬ 
plementary to Chapter LXXX of the Session Laws of 
1892, Passed the 30th Day of November, A. D. 1892, 
Entitled An Act Restricting Chinese Immigration.’ ” 

Be it Enacted by the Executive and Advisory Councils of the Re¬ 
public of Hawaii : 

Section 1. Section 1 of said Act is hereby amended by strik¬ 
ing out the words “out of the wages due the laborers” and the 
words “his employer” and inserting in the place of the latter 




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the words “said laborer” so that said section, as amended, shall 
read as follows: 

Section 1. In addition to the conditions named in Section 
2 of Chapter LXXX of the Session Laws of 1892 upon which 
permits may be granted to Chinese to enter the Hawaiian 
Islands to engage as agricultural laborers in the field, or in rice 
or sugar mills, such permits shall only be granted upon the 
further condition that the sum of one dollar and fifty cents 
at the end of each month shall be paid by said laborer to the 
Board of Immigration, in such manner and subject to such 
regulations as said Board shall direct, until such payments 
amount in each case to the sum of thirty-six dollars, to be held 

as a fund to the credit of the laborer for the uses and purposes 

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hereinafter set forth. 

Section 2. Section 5 of said Act is hereby amended by strik- 
ing out the words “every employer of Chinese admitted into 
this country under permits provided by said Act, who shall 
fail to remit to the Board of Immigration the amount above 
provided out of the wages of such laborers” and inserting in 
their place the words: “Every employer of Chinese admitted 
into this country under permits provided by this Act shall de¬ 
duct each month from the wages due such laborer at the end of 
each month the sum of one dollar and fifty cents, and every em¬ 
ployer who shall fail to remit to the Board of Immigration 
the amount above provided out of the wages of such laborers, 
and every laborer who shall refuse or neglect to pay such 
amount,” so that said section, as amended, shall read as fol¬ 
lows: 

Section 5. Every employer of Chinese admitted to this 
country under permits provided by this Act, shall deduct each 
month from the wages due such laborer at the end of each 
month the sum of one dollar and fifty cents, and every emplover 
who shall fail to remit to the Board of Immigration the amount 
above provided out of the wages of such laborers, and every 
laborer who shall refuse or neglect to pay such amount at the 
time and in the manner directed by said Board, shall be guiltv 


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of a misdemeanor and liable to a fine of not less tlian ten nor 
more than fifty dollars for each failure; and the said Board 
may thereafter refuse to grant the application of such employer 
for permits for Chinese to enter this country. 

Provided, however, if any such employer shall within thirty 
days after each failure show to said Board good and satis¬ 
factory reasons for such failure, said penalties shall not be 
imposed. 

Section 3. This Act shall take effect from the date of its 
publication. 

Approved this 19th day of March, A. D. 1895. 

(Signed) SANFORD B. DOLE, 

President of the Republic of Hawaii. 

(Signed) • J. A. King, 

Minister of the Interior. 


ACT 3. 

An Act Relating to the Restriction of Chinese Immigration. 
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Republic of Hawaii: 

Section 1 . It shall be lawful for the Minister of For* 
eign Affairs to grant permits as shall be recommended by the 
Board of Immigration, upon the application of the employers 
of domestic, agricultural or mill labor, to any Chinese now 
residing in the Hawaiian Islands under temporary resident’s 
permits issued in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter 80 of 
the Session Laws of 1892, to remain in this country as agri¬ 
cultural laborers, or domestic servants. 

Section 2. Such permits shall contain the condition print¬ 
ed in both the English language and in Chinese characters, 
that the bearer is allowed to remain in this country solely on 
condition that while here, he will engage in no trading or 



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mechanical occupation, other than domestic service or agri¬ 
cultural labor in the field, or in rice or sugar mills, and 
that he whenever he shall cease to follow his vocation as 
agricultural laborer in the field, or in rice or sugar mills or as 
domestic servant, leaye this country, and that for every breach 
of such condition, he shall on conviction by any District Mag¬ 
istrate, be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars. 

Section 3. Uppn the issuance of such permit to such 
laborer or servant, the conditions upon which he entered this 
country shall be void, and the bond theretofore given by him 
shall be cancelled, and he shall thereafter be subject to all 
the conditions, restraints, regulations and penalties, which 
are imposed by law upon Chinese who come to this country 
to engage in domestic service or agricultural labor in the 
field, or in rice or sugar mills, upon permits issued to them 
under the provisions of Chapter 80 of the Laws of 1892, as 
amended by Act 74 of the Laws of the Provisional Govern¬ 
ment, and Act 27 of the Laws of the Republic of Hawaii. 

Section 4. Such Chinese laborers and servants shall be 
included in and be a part of the five thousand Chinese whose 
entrance into this country is authorized under Section 2 of 
Chapter 80 of the Session Laws of 1892. 

Section 5. This Act shall take effect from the date of its 
approval. 

Approved this 12th day of July, A. I). 1895. 

SANFORD B. DOLE, 

President of the Republic, of Hawaii. 


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ACT 15. 

An Act to Amend Section 2 of an Act Entitled “An Act 
Restricting Chinese Immigration,” and Being Chapter 
LXXX of the Session Laws of 1892, Being Entitled 
“ An Act Relating to the Restricting of Chinese Immi¬ 
gration.” 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Republic of Hawaii: 

Section 1. Section 2 of an Act entitled, “An Act restricting 
Chinese Immigration,” and being Chapter 80 of the Session 
Laws of 1892, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

“Section 2. Conditional permits to enter this Republic 
may be granted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with the 
approval of the Executive Council, for such Chinese as shall 
be recommended by the Board of Immigration, upon the ap' 
plication of employers of domestic, agricultural or mill labor, 
which said permits shall contain the condition printed in both 
the English language and in Chinese characters, that the bearer 
is allowed to enter this Republic solely on condition that while 
here he will engage in no trading or mechanical occupation oth¬ 
er than domestic service or agricultural labor in the field, or in 
rice, coffee or sugar mills, and that he will, whenever he shall 
cease to follow his vocation as agricultural laborer in the field, 
or in sugar, coffee or rice mills, or as domestic servants, leave 
this Republic, and that for every breach of such condition he 
shall on conviction by any District Magistrate be liable to a 
fine of one hundred dollars. Permits to enter this Republic 
may also be granted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs for 
any Chinese resident in this Republic at the date of the passage 
of this Act, provided that such person shall have resided with¬ 
in the Republic for two years immediately preceding such pas¬ 
sage; and also to such other persons as may wish to sojourn 
temporarily in the Republic as travelers, or as merchants hav¬ 
ing business interests in this Republic, provided that such 


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sojourn shall not exceed six months; and provided that such 
person so permitted to enter shall give a bond to said Minister, 
in the sum of five hundred dollars, liquidated damages, com 
ditioned that he will leave the Republic within six months, and 
if he shall be found within the Republic after the expiration 
of six months shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall 
upon conviction be imprisoned at hard labor for a term not to 
exceed six months. For each permit granted under this sec¬ 
tion the Minister of Foreign Affairs shall be paid a fee of 
five dollars.” 

Section 2. This Act shall take effect from the date of its 
publication. 

Approved this 22d day of April, A. D. 1896. 

SANFORD B. DOLE, 

President of the Republic of Hawaii. 



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RULES AND REGULATIONS 

In Connection with the Acts Restricting Chinese Immigra¬ 
tion, Passed at the Session of the Legislature 

of 1892-1893. 

Pursuant to the power and authority vested in the Minis¬ 
ter of Foreign Affairs by an Act of the Legislature, passed on 
the 11th day of January, 1893, and by and with the consent 
of a majority of the Executive Council of the Provisional 
Government of the Hawaiian Islands, I do hereby make and 
publish the following Rules and Regulations, to be in force in 
conjunction with an Act “Restricting Chinese Immigration,” 
and the amendments thereto, passed by the said Legislature, 
until the same may be altered, amended or annulled: 

Section 1. There shall be, and hereby is, established a 
Chinese Bureau in the Foreign Office, which will be open for 
the transaction of all business relating to Chinese Immigra¬ 
tion, from 9 A. M. to 12 M., and from 1 P. M. to 4 P. M. on all 
week days, except Saturday, when it will be open only from 9 
A. M. to 12 M. No business will be transacted on official 
holidays, or other days, when the Government Building shall 
be closed. 

Section 2. No applications for Chinese Permits, or certi¬ 
ficates of anv kind whatsoever, will be entertained for vessels 
leaving Honolulu for China within 24 hours from the adver¬ 
tised departure of such vessel. 

Section 3. All applications for return permits for Chinese 
residing in the Hawaiian Islands, to be granted by the Chi¬ 
nese Bureau of the Foreign Office, must be accompanied by 
the applicant’s receipt for taxes for the current year, his pas¬ 
senger ticket, his Custom House passport, and, unless waived 
by the Bureau, four photographs of himself,—two full face 
and two profile. No application will be considered unless 
completed before presentation. 


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Section 4. Permits issued to Chinese residents to go to 
China and return will be granted only for a period not to ex¬ 
ceed two years from the date of issue. Provided, that the 
Minister of Foreign Affairs, in his discretion, by and with the 
consent of a majority of the Executive Council, may, in ex¬ 
ceptional cases, extend the time herein stipulated. 

Section 5. All applications for entry permits for Chinese 
women who have relatives by marriage or blood, residing in 
the Hawaiian Islands, and all children, male and female, 
under 10 years of age who have parents or guardians residing 
in the Hawaiian Islands, shall before presentation to the 
Chinese Bureau of the Foreign Office be certified to before 
the Chinese Commercial Agent, or the Assistant Chinese Com¬ 
mercial Agent, as to the truth of the statements contained in 
such application. 

Section 6. No permits will be issued to Chinese who have 
become naturalized Hawaiian citizens, or who have been 
born in the Hawaiian Islands. Upon satisfactory evidence 
being produced of naturalization, or of the birth of children 
of Chinese parents resident in the Hawaiian Islands, upon 
application, therefor, a special Foreign Office certificate will 
be issued to such naturalized Chinese and Hawaiian born 
children for filing in the office of the Consul General at Hong 
Kong for which a fee of $1 will be charged by the Chinese 
Bureau and a fee of $1 at the Hong Kong office for registra¬ 
tion. 

Section 7. All permits issued by the Foreign Office and 
the Consul General at Hong Kong are personal and not 
transferable. If transferred they will be confiscated and the 
holder prosecuted. If any Chinese shall, with intent and 
purpose to gain access to the Hawaiian Islands tender or 
present or cause to be tendered or presented to any officer of 
Customs or any other official of the Hawaiian Government, 
any ticket, permit, passport or other document other than a 
valid permit personal to himself for such Chinese to enter 
the Hawaiian Islands, the fact of such tender or presentation 


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shall be deemed conclusive evidence of an attempt of such 
Chinese to land on the Hawaiian Islands without a permit. 

Section 8. All permits issued under the said Act and Reg¬ 
ulations, and all photographs in connection therewith, shall 
be surrendered by the holder on entering the Hawaiian Isl¬ 
ands to the Collector General of Customs, or anv other Col- 
lector of Customs, who shall promptly hand them to the 
Chinese Bureau for verification, with the list of passengers on 
the arriving vessel. 

Section 9. All applications for permits for merchants or 
travelers, having business interests in the Hawaiian Islands, 
to sojourn temporarily in the Hawaiian Islands for a period 
not to exceed six months, must be accompanied by a good 
and sufficient bond for $500, signed by one or more sureties, 
resident in the Hawaiian Islands, approved by the Minister 
of Foreign Affairs, and executed by such merchants or travel¬ 
ers. Immediately upon the arrival of any vessel, having on 
board such merchant or traveler, the said surety or sureties 
shall obtain from the Foreign Office a permit for landing the 
said merchant or traveler, and shall, immediately upon his 
landing, take him to the Chinese Bureau to execute the said 
bond. The said surety or sureties shall, upon the departure 
of said merchant or traveler, file within seven days a declara¬ 
tion under oath, and certified to by the Collector General, 
that such merchant or traveler has left the Hawaiian Islands. 
On receipt of this evidence, the bond will be cancelled. All 
permits to embark for the Hawaiian Islands, granted to mer¬ 
chants and travelers whose sureties have filed bonds on their 
behalf, shall be null and void, unless the merchants or travel¬ 
ers shall land in the Hawaiian Islands before the expiration 
of six months from the date of the issuance of the permits by 
the Bureau. 

Section 10. All bonds must have impressed upon them 
the Treasury Stamp of $1.00 before being filed. 

Section 11. A charge of 5 cents, or 50 cents a dozen, will 
be made for all printed forms issued from the Foreign Office. 


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Section 12. All permits issued by tlie Foreign Office must 
be vised before the Consul-General at Hong Kong, or by the 
Hawaiian Consul or Vice-Consul at whatever port the grantee 
may land at or depart from, he paying the customary charges 
for such vise. 

Section 13. The following fees will be charged: 


FOREIGN OFFICE. 

Return Permits.$5 00 

Laborer’s Permits. 1 00 

Registration. 25 

Clergymen, Teachers and Col¬ 
porteurs . .. 5 00 

Certificate, naturalized Chinese 
and Hawaiian born children. 1 00 

Merchants and Travelers. 5 00 

Stamp on Bonds. 1 00 

Minors under 10 years. 2 50 

Affixing Stamp on application 
if no other fee is provided... 25 


HONGKONG CONSULATE-GENERAL. 


Vise... si 00 

Witnessing Signature. 1 00 


Registration. . 1 00 

Witnessing Signature.. 1 00 


SANFORD B. DOLE, 
Minister of Foreign Affairs. 

Approved in Executive Council the 7th day of February, 
1893. 


J. A. KING, 
Minister of the Interior. 

- P. C. JONES, 
Minister of Finance. 


WILLIAM O. SMITH, 
Attorney General. 

Chinese Bureau, } 

Department of Foreign Affairs, > 

Honolulu, H. I., Feb. 7th, 1893 ) 














INDEX. 


See. 1—Page 3. General Prohibition, Except. 

Sec. 2—Page 4. Conditional Permits for Laborers. Return 
Permits. Travelers’ and Merchants’ Permits. 

Sec. 3—Page 5. Penalty for Masters of Vessels for Landing 
Chinese without legal Permits. 

Sec. 4—Page 5. Directions for printing Permits, and for Can¬ 
cellation by Collector General. 

Sec. 5—Page 5. Permits for Clergymen, Colporteurs and 
Merchants. 

Sec. 6 —Page 6 . Fees for Laborers’ Permits. Fees for Clergy¬ 
men and Colporteurs’ Permits. 

Sec. 7—Page G. Registration of Laborers and change of 
Locality of Employment. 

Sec. 8 —Page 6 . Penalty for not causing Registration to be 
made. 

g ec . 9 —Page 6 . Exemption of Diplomatic Officers and their 
Servants from Provisions of Act. Empowering Collector 
General to hold any person suspected of violating Pro¬ 
visions of Act. 

S ec . io—Page 6 . Directing Deposit of Receipts to credit of 
“Chinese Immigration Fund.” 

Sec. 11—Page 6 . Repealing certain Acts. 

Sec. 12—Page 7. Enacting Clause. 

Chap. XCI—Page 7. Empowering Minister of Foreign Affairs 
to make and publish Rules and Regulations. 

Chap. CIV—Page 8 . Penalty for entering or attempting to 
enter without permit. 



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Act 74—Page 0. Requiring deposit of $1.50 per month from 
Laborers. 

Act 27—Page 11. Amending Act 74. 

Act 3—Page 13. Permitting Travelers to remain on condi¬ 
tion of Contracting. 

Act 15—Page 15. Empowering Executive to issue unlimited 
number of Laborers’ Permits and to work in Colfee Mills. 


RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

Sec. 1—Page 17. Establishing Chinese Bureau. 

Sec. 2—Page 17. Defining time during which Applications 
may be filed. 

Sec. 3—Page 17. Requirements to accompany applications 
for Return Permits. 

Sec. 4—Page 18. Limiting Return Permits to two years. 

Sec. 5—Page 18. Referring all applications for Permits for 
Women and Minors to Chinese Commercial Agent for 
approval. 

Sec. 6—Page 18. The issuance of Certificates to Hawaiian 
Birth or Naturalization and fee therefor. 

Sec. 7—Page 18. All Permits are personal and not trans¬ 
ferable. 

Sec. 8—Page 19. Surrender on landing of all Permits. 

Sec. 9—Page 19. Procedure for filing bonds for Travelers and 
Merchants and for cancellation of same. 

Sec 10—Page 19. Bonds to have $1.00 Treasury Stamp before 
filing. 

Sec. 11—Page 19. Fixing charge for Blank Forms. 

Sec 12—Page 20. Requiring all Permits to be vised before 
Hawaiian Consul at port of embarkation or where per¬ 
mitted may land. 

Sec. 13—Page 20. Fixing Fees and Charges. 






























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